Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 127
Hot iron and cold iron alike take the skin from our lips, and we feel the same sensation if we kiss either; and Anthony's kiss was now the kiss of hatred, as it had once been the kiss of love.
Who acts: Hot iron, we, kiss, Anthony · What happens: take, feel, kiss, be · To what, where: skin, lips, same sensation, kiss
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hot iron, we, kiss, Anthony), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 iron | amod |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 iron | cc |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 iron | amod |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 iron | conj |
| 6 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 lips | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lips | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feel | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feel | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 feel | nsubj |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sensation | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sensation | amod |
| 19 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feel | obj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 kiss | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kiss | nsubj |
| 22 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 feel | advcl |
| 23 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 kiss | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 kiss | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kiss | cc |
| 26 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Anthony | case |
| 28 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kiss | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 kiss | cop |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 kiss | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 kiss | det |
| 32 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 hatred | case |
| 34 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kiss | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 kiss | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 been | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 been | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 been | aux |
| 39 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 40 been | advmod |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 kiss | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 kiss | det |
| 42 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kiss | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 love | case |
| 44 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kiss | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | Hot iron and cold iron | the skin | our lips | alike property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme from lip=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | feel | present | we | the same sensation | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kiss a condition, not said to happen | present | we | either property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Anthony's kiss | the kiss and the kiss | now | of hatred | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is a | participle | Anthony's kiss not said here | the kiss | of love | tree rules | |||
| 6 | kiss | Anthony | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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